>>>>> Marca wrote:> > > So... does anyone object to image/*, etc.? (Precedent is in the> > > mailcap RFC, btw.)>On Oct 7, 10:17am, Nick Williams wrote:> > version: i.e. the native usenix facesaver picture. Mosaic doesn't> > understand this, but carries on anyway. Perhaps the link is slow as
The solution is simple. If you don't really want image/* then don't
ask for it. No one is going to force the users to do this.

> mind that I may have an external image 'viewer' that is perfectly capable of> saving formats it doesn't understand to disk rather than just puking, so I as a
Exactly.

> > There. Purely from the view of a server maintainer: I put in a lot of> > working getting our server to do conversions automatically! :-)
So have I, I still think "type/*" is a must, otherwise browsers will have
to translate image/* in the .mailcap file into every format known to man
and beast, an intractable solution.

The server should interpert this as I want one of the known formats first,
if not go ahead and send it and I'll save it to a file and I'll see what
I can do with it by hand. I can convert other formats (voc, sbdsp, etc),
I just don't have players setup for them.